The Delta independent., 1887-05-24
TELEGRAPH BREVTTIES.

Inc Dr1ckmakers OF flttsburg are on
strike. About 9 900 men are affected.
An express car on the Missouri Pa
cifc road was robbed on the 18th of y, 900.
Swan Brothers, the prominent Wy
oming cattlemen. have made an assign
ment
About thirty houses in the Chinese
quarter of Fresno, California, burned. Loss
So, 900.
It is rumored that General Rose
Grams is to be appointed Chief of the Coast
Survey.
The damage to timber in the Upper
Michigan Peninsula by fires is estimated at
6, 600, 900.
John L. Sullivan has agreed to fight
Jake kilrain for 5000. The contest is
limited to six rounds.
The corner stone of the first building
of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University has
| been laid at Palo Alto.
The Portuguese Government has or
dered 40 900 repeating rifles from an Aus
| tralian manufacturer.
Colonel Fred Grant has been nomi-
mated for Quarantine Commissioner by Gov
ernor Hill of New York.
The Canadian Pacific railroad has
contracted to transport s,ooo, 900 pounds of
sugar from California to the East.
Mr.. Parnell is reported to b., looking
feeble and emaciated." lie is said to be
suffering from cancer OF the stomach.
Justice William B. Woods of the Su-
preme Court of the United States died at his
residence in Washington last Saturday.
Negotiations are reported to be in
progress for the resumption of official rela-
tions between the Vatican and England.
Governor Ross of New Mexico has
again respited Thomasson for thirty days.
He was TO hang at Socorro on Friday next.
The strikers among the shoemakers
at HaverhilI, Massachusetts, gained their
point and forty factories have resumed op-
erations.
The New Yorkers appear determined
TO try speculation in silver and certificates
for 500 and 1000 ounces are now being
printed.
Eighteen thousand strikers are re-
ported in one district in Belgium, and
troops are going thither to prevent acts OF
violence.
The cornerstone of the capitol
building at Cheyenne was laid with due
ceremony on the 18Th. There was general
suspension of business.
y-,v,ipapS citi1op ~ A.1,,so
Georgia, who secretly violated the liquor
law, has been fined $500 and sentenced to
thirty days at breaking stone.
A disagreement between the Knights
OF Labor and the shoe manufacturers at
Haverhill, Massachusetts,, has closed forty
factories and 5000 men are idle.
The will of the late Washington c.
De PAW of New Albany, Indiana, leaves
8 ,ooo, 900 to his heirs and about S, ,oOo, 600
to benevolent and educational purposes.
Andrew Carnegie has excited the
Anglo maniacs of New York by declining
to attend a meeting to arrange for pro-
posed celebration of the Queens jubilee.
The determination of some of the
employers in St Louis to make Monday the
weekly payday is meeting with opposition
from their men, and it may lead to strikes.
The Germans distrust General Bou-
langer's scheme for the experimental mo-
bilization of the French army in October.
II II is carried out Germany will do like
wise.
Archbishop Corrigan, at a canonical
visitation at the Church OF the Sacred
Heart in New York, took occasion to
George.
Two ladies Of Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania, whose ancestor loaned money
| to the Government during the last years OF
the Revolutionary War, have instituted
suit to recover a, 900, 900.
After the Queen and Prince and
Princess OF Wales had taken tea at the
Mansion House on Saturday two gold tea
spoons were missed. they were probably
taken as mementoes of the occasion by
some of the attendants.
A yacht thirty-siH feet long and six
| feet beam, to draw less than twenty-five
| inches, is under construction at Pittsburg
Its power will be gas generated by chemi-
| calls. and the boat is guaranteed to run
| twelve miles an hour.
1t is now estimated that the Govern
ment revenues for the current fiscal year
will be greater by sl4,o0), 900 than antici-
pated when the Official estimates were pre-
pared for Secretary Manning's annual re-
port. The receipts are expected to aggre-
gate $50, ,ooo, 900.
An anti-coercion meeting at Music
Hall, Denver, last Sunday evening was
largely attended, and resolutions were
adopted voicing the sentiments of the meet
ing. Addresses were made by Governor
Adams, Senator Teller, Judge Belford,
Hon. T. NJ. Patterson and others.
Saturday evening John Gleason. a
convict, was killed In the Nebraska Peni-
tentiary by a colored convict named An.
drew jackson. They were at work In the
foundry, and jackson with an iron bar
elled Gleason into ladle OF molten metal.
Both men were serving sentences for rob.
berry.
Advices by the steamer Zeelandia re-
port that eighty five bodies of the victims
| Of the Rulls collierv tiIsasfer Neor Svdua,-